Charge: Seattle man beat up Lamborghini

Police say altercation came after man lay 'like a mermaid' on Lambo to pose for photo

A Lamborghini sports car similar to the one police say was damaged by a West Seattle man angry that he wasn't allowed to lay upon it for a photo.

A Lamborghini sports car similar to the one police say was damaged by a West Seattle man angry that he wasn't allowed to lay upon it for a photo.

Photo: Uwe Anspach, AFP/Getty Images

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A Lamborghini sports car similar to the one police say was damaged by a West Seattle man angry that he wasn't allowed to lay upon it for a photo.

A Lamborghini sports car similar to the one police say was damaged by a West Seattle man angry that he wasn't allowed to lay upon it for a photo.

Photo: Uwe Anspach, AFP/Getty Images

Charge: Seattle man beat up Lamborghini

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A West Seattle man accused of causing $20,000 in damage to a Lamborghini after being told not to lay on the sports car now faces a felony charge.

King County prosecutors claim Michael Clearwater smashed the Lamborghini GS’s windshield and dented its hood after an altercation with the car’s owner.

Clearwater, 40, was described as “laying like a mermaid” across the car’s hood as a friend took a photo of him. Trouble ensued after the car’s owner removed Clearwater from the car, which was parked on the 1500 block of 6th Avenue in downtown Seattle.

Describing the July 29 incident, a Seattle Police Department detective said Clearwater walked up to the car, complimented it and spoke briefly with the car’s owner. The owner was walking away when he turned back and saw Clearwater sprawled on the car.

Concerned his car would be damaged, the owner pulled Clearwater off of it. A shoving match followed, the detective said, before Clearwater climbed back on the Lamborghini.

Clearwater jumped on the hood and punched the windshield before police arrived, the detective said

According to charging papers, Clearwater admitted to sitting on the car but denied damaging it. Three witnesses told a different story, the detective said, as did the car’s owner and his friend.

“They saw the mutual pushing and yelling match and then saw Clearwater intentionally climb up on the hood of (the man’s) Lamborghini where he began jumping up and down and punching the windshield,” the detective said in court papers.

Clearwater is alleged to have caused just under $20,000 in damage to the 2011 car. He has been charged with first-degree malicious mischief and has not been jailed.